With a unique focus on message, method, and medium, Convergences asks students to think about what, why, and how we communicate. What's the best way to tell the story of your life, through words or pictures? How would the Gettysburg Address be received if Lincoln had delivered it on PowerPoint? Why did Benetton design a marketing campaign around death row inmates? Convergences asks these questions, among others. Convergences has been put together to help students explore the many different kinds of compositions that surround them. Clusters bring together texts from multiple media and genres -- essays, advertisements, the Web, news, comics, television, and film, among others -- with a methodology to read them.

Convergences: Method, Message, Medium [Text Only]

Reference

Robert Atwan

Words, Language & Grammar

VHPS; St. Martin

One Hundred Major Modern Writers

Macmillan Library Reference

Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience: Advertising, Newspapers, Nagazines, Best Sellers, Classics

Donald McQuade

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Oxford University Press

The Winchester Reader

St.Martin's Press

Writers Presence: A Pool of Essays

St Martins Pr

Like its best-selling predecessors, the fifth edition of Our Times is built entirely around very contemporary selections from a wide variety of very recent periodicals on intriguing topics of very current interest -- more than ninety percent published since 1996 . With a new profile of the Class of 2000 based on UCLA's national survey of college freshmen, the fifth edition of Our Times does even more to get students talking about where they stand in relation to their peers as well as to professional writers. And with plenty of selections that can be used as models and an even stronger focus on writing in the unique apparatus, Our Times shows students how to turn lively discussion about personal and public issues into effective writing.

Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals

Bedford/St.Martins

The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Reading

Donald MeQUADE

Book by McQuade, Donald / Atwan, Robert

The Writer's Presence, a Pool of Essays, Second Edition

Bedford Books

A key challenge in the first-year composition course is to inspire students as readers and to spark the kind of thoughtful classroom discussion that leads to solid academic writing. As series editor of The Best American Essays Robert Atwan constantly scours a wide range of print and online periodicals, bringing to America Now an unrivaled awareness of the best writing on today's hottest issues. To make these issues especially relevant for students, Atwan also explores hundreds of campus newspapers on the Internet to find the best student writing on current topics. These models by their peers from across the country show students that they, too, can share ideas through their own discussion and writing.

America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals

America Now

Mary McAleer Balkun

St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

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